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Introduction A local seo service used to have a fixed shape: Google Business Profile management, a handful of citations, some review requests, and a local landing page or two. That shape doesn't match what Google's AI Overviews, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity now expect before they'll mention a business by name. If you're still buying or selling the 2022 version of local SEO- you're paying for a scope that no longer matches what "ranking locally" requires in 2026. This isn't a "local SEO is dead" piece. It's closer to the opposite: local SEO matters more now, because a business that gets cited inside an AI-generated answer earns a far higher-intent lead than one that merely sits on page one. But the boundary of what counts as local SEO has moved, and most small business owners and a fair number of agencies haven't caught up. Why the Definition of Local SEO Stopped Being Simple AI Overviews turned local SEO from a ranking cont...

Introduction Your Google Search Console looks fine. Rankings haven't moved. Impressions haven't dropped. But leads have, and nobody on your team can explain why. If you've spent the last year paying for search engine optimization services, the ongoing technical, content, and authority work agencies use to grow a site's organic visibility, you were told rankings were the goal. In 2026, that's no longer the whole story. Google's AI Overviews now answer a huge share of searches directly on the results page, before anyone clicks a single link, and your site can hold position three for a keyword while traffic still collapses. A real example we see constantly: a business owner checks their dashboard, finds keyword positions unchanged from six months ago, and still can't explain why enquiries have gone quiet. Nobody touched the website. Nobody changed the strategy. The search results page itself changed instead. This article stays on one question: why does ...